Vehicle-brake.



No. 660,9l4.

WITNESSES H. MAG EE. VEHICLE BRAKE.

pplication filed Mar. 29, 1900.)

v Patented Oct." 30, 1900.-

//v VENTOF UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH MAGEE, OF MEADVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.

VEHICLE-BRAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 1Y0. 660,914, dated October30,1900. Application filed March 29, 1900 Serial No. 10,629. kllo modelsTo a, whom, it may concern:

be it known that I, HUGH MAGEE,acit-izen of the United States, and aresident of Meadville, in the county of Franklin and State ofMississippi, have invented a new and useful 1m provement in Vehicle-Brakes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to cellstruct a brake for vehicleswhich will be out of engagement with the wheels when the vehicle isbeing drawn ahead, but which brake will be im mediately placed inposition to check the motion of the vehicle the moment the animal oranimals are caused to move rearward or are quickly checked, the actionof the brake being automatic to that ex tent that it is under thecontrol of the draft-animals of the vehicle.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of referenceindicatecorresponding parts in both figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of a vehicle, illustrating theimprovementapplied thereto; and Fig. 2v is a side elevation of the vehicle, theaxles being in transverse section.

A represents the rear axleof a vehicle, and B the forward axle, andthese axles are connected with the body 0 of the vehicle in any suitableor approved manner.

D represents the rear hounds, E the reach, and'F the pole, which isshown connected with the forward axle, which pole F is provided with apulley 10 at its forward end, adapted for a purpose to be hereinafterdescribed.

.The brake-beam 11 extends, as usual, from side to side of therunning-gear and faces the rear wheels of the vehicle. This brake-beam11 off the wheels has a decided downward and forward inclination, asshown in both the views. The brake-beam 11 is held normally out ofengagement with the rear wheels of the vehicle through the rnediuin'of aspring 16, which is preferably a l')ar-spring, and is passed through orsecured above the forward portion of the hounds and the reach,ext-ending beyond opposite sides of the former, and the ends of thisspring are connected by li nks 15 or their equivalents with the forwardedge of the brake-beaui'll at each side of-Ihe center of the said beam.

Two levers 17 are pivoted between their ends on projections 18,extending forward from the rear axle, and the inner ends of these leversare made to approach each other. The said inner ends of the levers 17are provided with links '19, which links engage with an eye 20 or itsequivalent, secured to the central port-ion of the rear longitudinaledge of the brake-beam 11. The ends of a rod, rope, or chain 21 aresecured to the outer or free ends of thelevers l7, and this rope, chain,or rod 21 is carried in direction of the forward axle B and is connectedby a section- 22, which passes through a guide 22*, attached to theforward axle, with a forward rope,chain, or rod 23, which passes beneaththe tongue or pole F and over the pulley 10, and this forward rope,chain, or rod 23 is provided with a book 24 or equivalent means forattach ment to the neck-yoke of--a harness or to any other holdbackportion thereof. The brakeshoes 26 are provided with dovetailed shanks27, and these dovetailed shanks are made to enter correspondingly-shapedgrooves in the rear edge'ot' the brake-beam 11.

In operation when the vehicle is drawn forward the brake-shoes of thebrake-beam are out of engagement with the rearwheels, being held in suchposition by the spring16; but the moment that the team issuddenlychecked or backed the rope, chain, or rod 23 is drawn forward, andconsequently through the medium of the rear rope, rod, or chain 21 theouter ends of the levers 17 are carried in the same direction, thuscausing the inner ends of the levers 17 to draw the brake-beams in arearward direction through the connections 19 and 20, and thus bring thebrakeshoes in firm contact with the rear wheels of the vehicle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The brake herein described comprising the reach andhounds, the yoke pivotally supported at its upper end above the reachand hounds and having at its ends depending arms extending past thereach and hounds, the brake-bar supported on said arms, and arrangedbelow the reach and hounds, the spring-bar secured at its middle to therunning-gear in advance of the brake-bar and having its outer free endsconnected with the brake-bar whereby to actuate the same forward at bothends, the levers arranged in rear of the brake-bar and below the houndsand pivoted to the latter, connections between the inner ends of saidlevers and the brake-bar and means for operating the levers to set thebrake, substantially as set forth.

2. In a brake substantially as described, the combination of thebrake-bar, means supporting the same, devices for operating the bar toset the brake anda spring-bar secured at its middle in advance of thebrake-bar and connected at its ends with the brake-bar whereby toadvance the same, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the reach and hounds, the blocks mounted on thebounds, the yoke having a cross-bar journaled in said blocks andprovided at its ends with depending arms, the brake-bar supported onsaid arms, means for operating the brake-bar to set the brake, and aspring for releasing the brake, substantially as set forth.

4. In a brake the combination of the reach and hounds, the yokepivotally supported above the hounds and having at its ends dependingarms extending past the bounds, the brake-bar supported on said arms andarranged below the hounds, a spring for releasing the brake, and leversarranged below and pivoted to the hounds, means connecting the innerends of the levers with the brakebar, and means foroperating the leversto set the brake, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HUGH MAGEE.

Witnesses:

J. F. HOLLINGER, W. M. DUNN.

